Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to visitor needs. We use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

We take your privacy very seriously and comply with the recent UK and EU law on handling cookies.

If you have any concerns about our cookie use or how we use your data in general, please contact privacy@clairescourt.net.

The cookies we use on are:

Cookie

What it does

Type

cssAnimation

Set if you are a returning visitor. If returning to the website, the hero animation displays a different message. This is still being worked on.

Persistent

Google Analytics _utma
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Used to track your movement around the website, we use this information to see what information is popular and then tweak the website to ensure people access the most relevant information easily. This is a 3rd party cookie set by them and is governed by their privacy policy, which can be found at

3rd Party

ASPSESSID

Only set if you log into the website, used to keep you logged in.

Session

e4eLastKnownPage

Only set if you log into the website, used to identify the page you were last working on.

Session

YouTube

This may be set if we have embedded a YouTube video on a page. This is a 3rd party cookie set by them and is governed by their privacy policy,

3rd Party

Vimeo

This may be set if we have embedded a Vimeo video on a page. This is a 3rd party cookie set by them and is governed by their privacy policy.

3rd Party

Facebook

Only set if any official facebook widgets are included in the site. This is a 3rd party cookie set by them and is governed by their privacy policy.

3rd Party

Twitter

Only set if any official twitter widgets are included in the site. This is a 3rd party cookie set by them and is governed by their privacy policy.

3rd Party

Session Cookie

This is a cookie which is set for the length of your browsing session, it expires once you close your browser. We use this to track basic information within your visit to our website, e.g. any information that will need to be remembered from page to page. Session cookies are not shared with other websites and cannot be used to identify you.

Persistent cookies

These remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire. How long a cookie remains on your browser depends on how long our website has programmed the cookie to last.